Why do you have to arrest anyone? The gun was not loaded. The boy did not point it to anyone. He was being a boy showing it to friends. Obviously it was not a safe thing to do, but why traumatizing the kid with arrests and staining his record. When are officials going to use common sense and stop wasting our tax payer dollars?

If you fix the loose gun laws to make it more difficult for anyone to buy guns many of these incidents would go away. Yet weak minded politicians are afraid to do the right thing.

I hope they are looking into charging whoever made this gun accessible to him. The biggest problem with gun laws is the ones we have now aren't enforced enough. If the child got this from his parents, they should be arrested.

ThomasFl, the kid didn't go out and buy a gun. His negligent parents (or caretakers, grandparents, siblings, or whoever) left it out and accessible to him. I don't think this is a gun issue. It's a parenting/domestic issue. It would be the same reasoning if the kid brought a bag of dope to school; It wouldn't be a drug issue, it would be a parenting issue. He's an elementary-aged student... he could have been as young as 5 y.o. The parents are the ones totally liable here.

ThomasFl, the kid didn't go out and buy a gun. His negligent parents (or caretakers, grandparents, siblings, or whoever) left it out and accessible to him. I don't think this is a gun issue. It's a parenting/domestic issue. It would be the same reasoning if the kid brought a bag of dope to school; It wouldn't be a drug issue, it would be a parenting issue. He's an elementary-aged student... he could have been as young as 5 y.o. The parents are the ones totally liable here.